3 plane crashes that shocked the world in a fortnight
Air Algerie plane crash: A flight operated by Air Algerie disappeared from radar while traveling from Burkina Faso in West Africa to Algiers. This photo provided by the French army shows the site of the plane crash in Mali. (Photo: AP)- This undated photo supplied by the Ayley family, shows Rob Ayley and his wife Sharlene on their wedding day in New Zealand. The couple was among those killed when a Malaysian jetliner, Flight MH17 (Photo: AP)
- A girl holding a candle squats next to candles forming the letters MH17 during an event to mourn the victims of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Photo: AP)
- MH17 disaster: A Malaysia Airlines passenger jet with 295 people on board crashed in Ukraine near the Russian border. In a tweet, the airline said, "Malaysia Airlines has lost contact of MH17 from Amsterdam. The plane said to have been shot down
- An inconsolable relative of a passenger on the Taiwan domestic TransAsia Airways flight reacts at the flight's departure airport in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan (Photo: AP)
- Relatives of victims killed in the TransAsia Airways Flight GE222 crash pray with the victims' portraits during a makeshift ceremony at the crash site on the outlying island of Penghu, Taiwan (Photo: AP)
- Chairman of TransAsia Airlines Vincent Lin, left, leaves after meeting a family member, right, of a victim in the TransAsia Airways crash on the Taiwan island of Penghu (Photo: AP)
- Soldiers collect forensic evidence from the TransAsia Airways Flight GE222 crash site on the outlying Taiwan island of Penghu (Photo: AP)
- A relative of a victim killed in the TransAsia Airways Flight GE222 crash prays at a makeshift altar at the crash site on the outlying island of Penghu, Taiwan (Photo: AP)
- A forensic team recovers human remains among the wreckage of crashed TransAsia Airways flight GE222 on the outlying island (Photo: AP)
- Emergency workers remove the wreckage of crashed TransAsia Airways flight GE222 on the outlying island of Penghu, Taiwan (Photo: AP)
- Emergency workers scour the wreckage scene of crashed TransAsia Airways Flight GE222 on the outlying island of Penghu, Taiwan (Photo: AP)
- TransAsia Crash: Stormy weather on the trailing edge of Typhoon Matmo was the likely cause of the plane crash that killed more than 40 people. In photo: An emergency worker surveys the wreckage of crashed TransAsia Airways flight GE222 on the
- Mourners gather for a vigil at a park in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada on Friday, July 25, 2014 in memory of the victims of Air Algerie Flight 5017 (Photo: AP)
- Family members and friends await news on Air Algeria Flight 5017 which crashed in Mali at the airport in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (Photo: AP)
- At least 116 people were killed in the disaster, nearly half of whom were French (Photo: AP)
- Terrorism wasn't ruled out as a cause, although officials said that the most likely reason for the catastrophe that killed all onboard is bad weather (Photo: AP)
- French soldiers secured a black box from the Air Algerie wreckage site in a desolate region of restive northern Mali (Photo: AP)
- A police officer stands near a refrigerated train loaded with bodies of the passengers of Malaysian Airlines flightMH17 at Kharkiv railway station, Ukraine (Photo: AP)
- A pro-Russian rebel touches the MH17 wreckage at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine. Ukraine said a passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down as it flew over the country, and both the
- Jerzy Dyczynski and Angela Rudhart-Dyczynski whose daughter, 25-year-old Fatima, was a passenger on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, sit on part of the wreckage of the crashed aircraft in Hrabove, Ukraine (Photo: AP)
- A relative of passengers on flight MH17 wipes his eyes as he waits in a bus to be transported to an unknown location to receive more information, at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam (Photo: AP)
Air Algerie plane crash: A flight operated by Air Algerie disappeared from radar while traveling from Burkina Faso in West Africa to Algiers. This photo provided by the French army shows the site of the plane crash in Mali. (Photo: AP)
3 plane crashes that shocked the world in a fortnight
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